Bringing Rainmeter skins into focus

[Fuzzybat23]

Is there a way to code a rainmeter skin so that it gains focus over other skins/windows on mouse over?

[l3uddy789]

http://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/mouse-actions

"Mouse Hover Options

MouseOverAction
Action to execute when the mouse cursor is moved over the meter or skin.
MouseLeaveAction
Action to execute when the mouse cursor leaves the meter or skin."

EDIT: didn't understand the full question, I do not know if you can change the position in terms of top, bottom, ect with API commands.

[DigitalSpectrum]

The MouseOverActions seem to be the way to do it, But I would like to know what is the actual command/bang that would be executed on mouseover to take focus? !Refresh seems like overkill, so maybe a simple !Update or !Redraw would do it?

[Fuzzybat23]

Nope, tried putting MouseOverAction=!Redraw in both the [Rainmeter] and in the main background images block, neither would bring it to focus when the mouse was over the skin.

[l3uddy789]

redraw wouldn't work. You need to figure out a way to change the skin's position. If you have an active skin and you right click it and under i think settings -> position there are options such as "top-most" "top" "bottom" "bottom-most".

If on mouse over you could change the desired skin to "top-most" and then on mouse off go back to whatever position is was before you should get the desired result. Having said that I do not know how to change skin position in this way with the API.

[~Faradey~]

Wrote a little utility RainFocus.exe
On loading it checks if Rainmeter window under mouse pointer, if True --> bring skin (not skins) into focus --> Exit, if False --> Exit.

Try it)

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[Rainmeter]
Author=Faradey
Update=1000
MouseOverAction=[PATH_TO_RAINFOCUS]

where PATH_TO_RAINFOCUS full path to RainFocus.exe

Download:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7oqsko

[eclectic-tech]

Wrote a little utility RainFocus.exe
On loading it checks if Rainmeter window under mouse pointer, if True --> bring skin (not skins) into focus --> Exit, if False --> Exit.

Try it)

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Thanks ~Faradey~!

This simple utility comes in very handy for my fileview.dll menus...
Now I just need to edit 100 ini files to add this line

Thanks again!

[~Faradey~]

eclectic-tech
glad you liked it, let me know if you need to add or change something in utility

[Virginityrocks]

Faradey, any hope of getting this as an addon for Rainmeter, and allow focus to be set on specific call? Such as LeftMouseUpAction=[!CommandMeasure "MeasureFocus" "SkinName\SkinName.ini"]

[Mor3bane]

Anyone have this utility still/

The link is dead.

It would really help in my Blackout skin, which seems to need a focus assert - on mouseover is exactly what I needs.